The guy who played drums in The Cure once.

Sade
Corrine Bailey Rae
Seal
Doc Brown
0sibisa
Labi Siffre
Keisha Buchanan
Imagination
Shola Ama
Shirley Bassey
GOOD SKY YOU'VE GOT HERE McCINTYRE..WELL DONE!!!

That's a hard one 'cause there are a few but I am not sure if they are British or European. Two that come to mind are Seal and my favourite, Skin (Skunk Anansie).

Make Same Sex Marriages Legal In Australia 'cause we deserve to have the same rights as everybody else and shouldn't be controlled by backwards people with outdated views

Linton Kwesi Johnson
Aswad
Steel Pulse
FKA Twigs

I was expecting Black Sabbath
Silent like a foreign movie

Does Brinsley Schwarz count?
Ja!
Liberty E Pluribus Unum In God We Trust

I was astonished no one beat
me
to it. So obvious.
Does Brinsley Schwarz count?

Cilla Black
EDIT: Bravo, you skunk. You beat me by a mere 11 minutes.
Liberty E Pluribus Unum In God We Trust

Cilla

Neneh Cherry, who has a couple of mentions here, was born in Stockholm to a Swedish mother and Sierra Leonean father.
Until a few years ago I always thought she was American (!)

Sade Adu
Phil Lynott
Jazzy B
Daddy G (Massive Attack)
Astro (UB40)

Fair point re reggae bands & those you cited

but I can't think of one regular-set-up band (ie guitars, drums, vocals) with all black musicians
The UK has produced quite a few reggae bands.
I have a sneaking suspicion that there are probably more successful multi-racial bands in the UK than there are in for unstance the US - the Specials, The Beat, The Selecter, Simple Minds, The Libertines, UB40 spring to mind

then that there aren't so many black singers / bands is understandable & logical.
It might have something to do with there being so few black bands, too. Loads of solo singers, rappers, souly groups etc, but I can't think of one regular-set-up band (ie guitars, drums, vocals) with all black musicians, & the UK loves its bands.

To a degree, possibly, but I'd wager the more important factor is that the black population in the UK is relatively small.

Do you think that fact has discriminatory origins?

Of course music shouldn't be classified by race, but I felt that the point of this thread was that there aren't nearly as many well-known Black British artists in comparison to Whites.

Should music be classified by the skin colour of its performers or writers? Substitute black for white & it immediately seems like a racist question.

Barry Adamson
Pauline Black
Poly Styrene

Labi Siffre
Cymande
Osibisa
Steel Pulse
Aswad
Matumbi
Roots Manuva
Goldie
Tricky
Roni Size
Young MC
Lewis Parker
Yungun
Lotek
MF Doom

Sade
The Mis-Teeq
The 411 (two of the girls in this group are black)
Lisa Roxanne
Neneh Cherry
Poly Styrene (X Ray Spex)

Tricky

Tricky
Goldie
Sade
Steel Pulse
Craig David
Grooverider
Carl Cox
Roni Size

oh yeah, I forgot about Sade!
Simply me.